Crawdaddy's 4'X4' Grow Tents w/Mars II 240X5W LED

[Crawdaddy]

I will poke my head in SmokerJoe.

Here are some pics, not a real update on plants, they humming along just fine, Hawaiian snow is a thirsty bugger, up to about 1/2 gallon a day to fill reservoir.

First is some root shots from the two Super Cheese I culled. I did not see much growth difference, but the root structure and health of the airpot one looked superior. My thinking is the advantage may not come into play until plants are close to rot bound, because of the branshing and lack of wrapping I would hypothesize that you could grow bigger plant in airpot as same size nursery pot. But once again I am using pots to big for platns so they did not get root bound in either...

Air pot pics...

Nursery pot...

And here is a clone of the Hawaiian Snow that has been in the closet for a while vegging in a 3 gallon pot. I been pulling and topping her over the last 2 months. She will be the future SOLE resident of the 4X4 tent when those in it are done, so she is going to be doing quite a bit more vegging. Put her in 10 gallon pot, used a tomato cage for future support and to push down some of the bigger branches now.

Before...

After...

Also found some sign of mites on brainstorm, so I doused them all with Mighty Wash, waited an hour, then rinsed off with water, after turning off light an hour early last night.

 

[DrZiggy]

Crawdaddy,
The airpots will contain less soil than a regular pot. You can drill holes to allow air and drainage, add a wick(as does docbud) and you have a container with aeration, and more soil..which gets consumed with more roots.

 

[SmokerJoe]

I will poke my head in SmokerJoe.

Here are some pics, not a real update on plants, they humming along just fine, Hawaiian snow is a thirsty bugger, up to about 1/2 gallon a day to fill reservoir.

First is some root shots from the two Super Cheese I culled. I did not see much growth difference, but the root structure and health of the airpot one looked superior. My thinking is the advantage may not come into play until plants are close to rot bound, because of the branshing and lack of wrapping I would hypothesize that you could grow bigger plant in airpot as same size nursery pot. But once again I am using pots to big for platns so they did not get root bound in either...

Air pot pics...

Nursery pot...

And here is a clone of the Hawaiian Snow that has been in the closet for a while vegging in a 3 gallon pot. I been pulling and topping her over the last 2 months. She will be the future SOLE resident of the 4X4 tent when those in it are done, so she is going to be doing quite a bit more vegging. Put her in 10 gallon pot, used a tomato cage for future support and to push down some of the bigger branches now.

Before...

After...

Also found some sign of mites on brainstorm, so I doused them all with Mighty Wash, waited an hour, then rinsed off with water, after turning off light an hour early last night.

Very nice healthy roots. I am curious what are those pots I see a lot of people have? The ones wit h the odd notches here and there. In the next to last picture on the right with the plant in it. What is their capacity?

 

[b.real]

very nice. you should not defoliate one plant at all and see what happens

 

[Crawdaddy]

Crawdaddy,
The airpots will contain less soil than a regular pot. You can drill holes to allow air and drainage, add a wick(as does docbud) and you have a container with aeration, and more soil..which gets consumed with more roots.

Yes they are smaller volume in the label, for example the 5 gallon airpot probably only has 3-4 gallons of soil. But If you where to ignore the label size and equal size soil mass, I think airpot would be superior. But not a game changer by any means, I am thinking just slightly better performance at the extremes. Plus the airpots are higher maintenance and harder to work with too.

I like that idea though of drilling holes in nursery pot.

Very nice healthy roots. I am curious what are those pots I see a lot of people have? The ones wit h the odd notches here and there. In the next to last picture on the right with the plant in it. What is their capacity?

They are called airpots, if you look early in this journal 6 of my plants where part of an airpot vs regular nursery pot experiment. 1 of each of 3 strains in each type pot. one is this picture I using as stand, it the biggest easy to obtain one, 15 gallons they call i, but I think it holds about 12-13.

here is the smallest, about a liter of soil...

very nice. you should not defoliate one plant at all and see what happens

Yea this Hawaiian Snow is a lanky bastard so she would have some big ass leaves...

 

[CareStaker]

have some big ass leaves...

Almost a foot

 

[SmokerJoe]

D you do some major defoliation? Either that or someone is stealing your leaves call the cops... wait no dont they want to steal too

 

[BigIrishDoode]

looking toot sweet CD

 

[SmokerJoe]

When someone toots it is rarely ever sweet haha Hows it going irish dude? Your journals are next on my list of reading.

 

[kimmy]

D you do some major defoliation? Either that or someone is stealing your leaves call the cops... wait no dont they want to steal too

Don't steal. The government hates the competition !

 

[b.real]

the bigger the leaves the bigger the buds

 

[SmokerJoe]

Do you use mycorizal for your roots?

 

[A1cronick]

i agree air pots do require more care i put 10-15 gallon of water in my air pots a week in my flower room hand water coco coir but when i transplanted from the 2gal air pot to the 5gal the roots were amazing i wish i took a pic there were very thick and fiberous i love my air pots but when i have some xtra cash i think im going to upgrade to a drip feed

 

[Crawdaddy]

Do you use mycorizal for your roots?

I use Pro Mix HP and it comes with mycos already in it.

 

[SmokerJoe]

Well most premium organic soil does but I think they could use more especially comparing the costs I would say they use very little. Id like to add more anyways since they increase roots by 100-1000%

 

[Crawdaddy]

Are not mycos just a fungus? so even if small amount one would think the would rapidly multiply to give you what you need?

 

[Light Addict]

Hey Craw hope all is good with you and yours my friend!

 

[SmokerJoe]

They do multiply but not in the time you veg and flower. There is a link to a thread all about it in ricrico's notes in his profile its a 13 minute video. If you go look but cant find it I will find it for you.

 

[A1cronick]

i just put a video in my below thread about these fungus and bacterias check it out

 

[SmokerJoe]

Alright I watched that short video A1. Im not anti synthetic or anything . I just prefer organic as I feel it is substantially easier to deal with. Here is the video I suggestedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4yWJAEEKo